If you go on Wikipedia and type in your birthdate, you’ll get a long list of famous people with whom you share your special day. (Just day and month only, not year.)
I’ll start and show my 3 first…post yours and we’ll play a friendly game to see who has the best hand.
- Carlos Santana
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Gregor Mendel
- ?
- ?
Um, which would you consider more impressive–a sportsman or celebrity, a Nobel Prize winner, or an obscure Byzantine emperor?
Okay, okay–I’ll play:
- Hellen Keller, a well-known socialist and Swedenborgian writer
- James P. Hogan, science-fiction author
- The baby from “Rosemary’s Baby” (in the film)
Princess Diana
Frank Spencer (The character, not the actor)
Canada
Debbie Harry
Dan Ackroyd
1243 - Gilbert de Clare, 7th Earl of Hertford, English politician (d. 1295)
1548 - Vincenzo Scamozzi, Italian architect (d. 1616)
1661 - Georg Böhm, German organist (d. 1733)
1675 - William Somervile, English poet (d. 1742)
1753 - Marie Josephine Louise of Savoy, queen of France (d. 1810)
Hmm…artists, royalty, and dirty rotten scounderels (polititions).
John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze
A straight flush
Condorcet
William Carlos Williams
Hank Williams
George Blanda
Ken Kesey
[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze
A straight flush[/quote]
It looks like Dr. McCoy has taken the lead.
Here’s my 4th:
- Carlos Santana
- Sir Edmund Hillary
- Gregor Mendel
- Gisele Bundchen
- ?
[quote=“Dr. McCoy”]John Dillinger
Billy Wilder
Kris Kristofferson
Cyndi Lauper
Freddie Prinze
A straight flush[/quote]
Well my final lineup is:
Carlos Santana
Sir Edmund Hillary
Gregor Mendel
Gisele Bundchen
Alexander the Great
I totally would have beaten Dr. McCoy if Gregor Mendel wasn’t such a tool.
I share my birthday with five monarchs who died on the toilet.
A royal flush.